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[Forwarded from David Peterson, Web researcher and
writer par excellence.
It's only to be expected that at an international
conference on war crimes that one of the conferees
would be Bob Kerrey.
The 'exterminate the brutes' is from Kurtz in Joseph
Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and is the quintessential
statement on where the New Humanitarians, or as
Peterson also calls them, Morality's Avenging Angels,
have landed themselves.
Happy holiday to all who celebrate it. RR]
INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE, WAR CRIMES, AND--EXTERMNATE THE
BRUTES!Date:Wed, 1 May 2002 09:01:57 -0500
* Get a load of the following lineup of performers
at a recent New
Humanitarian (i.e., bombing = humanitarianism)
happening that was held at the New School University
in New York City, April 25-27. (See below.) And what
a lineup it is! Anderson, Bass, Goldstone,
Gourevitch, Holbrooke, Ignatieff, Kerry, Meron, Neier,
Peretz, Power, Rieff, Roth, Scheffer (How can anybody
stomach an individual who would accept the nomination
to the position of U.S. Ambassador at Large for War
Crimes Issues???), Wald, and Walzer, to name a few.
Does this lineup represent anything more than the
detritus of the "human rights" crowd following the
collapse of the Cold War system of propaganda? (That
is to say, they're part of the crew that's presently
laboring to fill in the cracks and potholes left in
the reigning (post-Cold War) system of power and
ideology, in the absence of the Cold War system of
propaganda.--Now, you see, it is the United States, or
"The West," or the Avenging Angels among the NGOs, the
"post-Westphalians," and the assorted Normative
Revolution in International Affairs-ers, that have
picked up the torch of History, not against Godless
Communism, but against Genocide, Crimes Against
Humanity, "Ethnic Cleansing," and War Crimes.)
These days, I wonder how much warfare and the
"taking of sides" one must advocate, before one will
be invited to perform at conferences devoted to
International Justice, War Crimes and Terrorism???
Something stinks around here.
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Speaker Bios
Kenneth Anderson Professor of Law at Washington
College of Law, American University. He is the
founder and former Director of the Human Rights Watch
Arms Division. He was the legal editor for Crimes of
War: What the Public Needs to Know and is the author
of many articles.
Andrew Arato Dorothy Hart Hirshon Professor of
Sociology and Co-chair of the Committee for the Study
of Democracy at the New School University's Graduate
Faculty. He is the author of From Neo-Marxism to
Democratic Theory (1993).
Gary J. Bass Assistant Professor of Politics, Woodrow
Wilson School of Public and International Affairs,
Princeton University. He is the author of Stay the
Hand of Vengeance: The Politics of War Crimes
Tribunals. He is a former reporter for the Economist,
and has written for The New York Times, The Washington
Post, The Boston Globe, the New Republic and other
publications.
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Col. Charles Garraway Directorate of Army Legal
Services, Ministry of Defence, Great Britain. He has
been a participant in the UK delegation for ICC
negotiations as well as various weaponry conventions
and is a visiting instructor at the International
Institute of Humanitarian Law in Italy.
Justice Richard Goldstone Currently sits on the South
African Constitutional Court and serves as Chairman of
the International Bar Association's Task Force on
International Terrorism. He served as the chairman of
the Independent Inquiry on Kosovo. He previously
served as Chief Prosecutor of the International
Criminal Court for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia.
He also chaired the Goldstone Commission, a commission
of inquiry established in 1991 regarding the
prevention of public violence and intimidation in
South Africa. He is the author of For Humanity:
Reflections of a War Crime Investigator .
Philip Gourevitch Staff writer at the New Yorker. He
is the author of A Cold Case and We Wish To Inform
That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With our Families:
Stories from Rwanda. The winner of numerous awards,
including the National Book Critics' Circle Award for
Nonfiction, the George Polk Award for Foreign
Reporting.
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Col. Anthony E. Hartle Professor of Philosophy and
English, United States Military Academy. He helped to
design United States Military Academy ethics
curriculum. He is the author of Moral Issues in
Military Decision-Making.
Arthur C. Helton Senior Fellow, Refugee Studies and
Preventive Action, and Director, Peace and Conflict
Studies, Council on Foreign Relations. He is
co-author of Forced Displacement and Human Security in
the Former Soviet Union: Law and Policy, and his
articles have appeared in the New York Times and
Newsweek.
J. Bryan Hehir President, Catholic Charities USA.
His publications include the articles "Military
Intervention and National Sovereignty," "Expanding
Military Intervention: Promise or Peril?,"
"Catholicism and Democracy: Conflict, Change, and
Collaboration," and "The Just-War Ethic Revisited."
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Ambassador Richard Holbrooke Former Permanent United
States Representative
to the United Nations, and Assistant Secretary of
State for European and Canadian Affairs in the Clinton
administration. He also has served as
U.S.
Ambassador to Germany and Assistant Secretary of State
for East Asian and Pacific Affairs in the Carter
administration.
Stephen Holmes Professor of Law, New York University.
His books include The Cost of Rights and Passions and
Constraints: The Theory of Liberal Democracy.
Michael Ignatieff Director, Carr Center for Human
Rights Policy, John
F.
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University;
Writer, his books include The Warrior's Honor: Ethnic
War and the Modern Conscience; Virtual War: Kosovo and
Beyond; Blood and Belonging; Journey into the New
Nationalism, among many others. His articles appear
frequently in The New York Review of Books, The New
Republic and the Times Literary Supplement..
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Senator Bob Kerrey President of New School
University; former United States Senator from
Nebraska; former Governor of Nebraska.
Anatol Lieven Journalist, writer and historian;
Senior Associate for Foreign and Security policy in
the Russia and Eurasia Center, Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace. He is the author of Chechnya:
Tombstone of Russian Power; The Baltic Revolution:
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and the path to
Independence; Ukraine and Russia: A Fraternal Rivalry.
Theodor Meron Charles L. Denison Professor of Law at
New York University. American Judge (appeals chamber)
of the UN War Crimes Tribunal at The Hague. Books
include Henry's Wars and Shakespeare's Laws:
Perspectives on the Laws of War in the Later Middle
Ages; Human Rights and Humanitarian Norms as Customary
Law; War Crimes Law Comes of Age: Essays; and Human
Rights in Internal Strife: Their International
Protection .
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Aryeh Neier President of the Soros Foundations and
Open Society Institute since 1993. For the previous
12 years, he was executive director of Human Rights
Watch, and before that, he served for 15 years with
the American Civil Liberties Union, including eight
years as national director. He is the author of five
books, including War Crimes: Brutality, Genocide,
Terror and the Struggle for Justice, and his articles
have appeared in numerous publications.
Col. Hays Parks Special assistant to the judge
advocate general of the Army at the Pentagon and
Adjunct Professor of International Law at the American
University School of Law. He has published articles
in a variety of military and legal journals. In 2001
he became the sixth person in the history of the
United States Special Operations Command to receive
that command's top civilian award, the U.S. Special
Operations Command Outstanding Civilian Service Medal.
Martin Peretz Chairman and Editor in Chief of the New
Republic since
1974.
He holds numerous honorary degrees, as well as the
Medal of Distinction of the University of Missouri's
School of Journalism and the National Magazine Award
for Outstanding Achievement in Essays and Criticisms
of the Columbia University Graduate School of
Journalism.
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Samantha Power Executive Director, Carr Center for
Human Rights Policy, John F. Kennedy School, Harvard
University. She covered the wars in the former
Yugoslavia as a reporter for the US News and World
Report and Economist, and is co-editor of Realizing
Human Rights: Moving from Inspiration to Impact. She
is the author of A Problem From Hell: America and the
Age of Genocide.
David Rieff Journalist and writer, and Senior Fellow
of the World Policy Institute at the New School
University. His work has appeared in Harper's, The
New Republic, The New Yorker, and The Washington Post.
He is the author of Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the
Failure of the West, and the editor, with Roy Gutman,
of Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know, and
many others.
Kenneth Roth Executive Director, Human Rights Watch.
Former federal prosecutor who worked on the
Iran-Contra investigation. He has conducted human
rights investigations around the globe.
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Ambassador David Scheffer Senior fellow, United
States Institute of Peace, Jennings Randolph
Fellowship Program. As Ambassador at Large for War
Crimes Issues in the Clinton administration, Scheffer
negotiated the establishment of the International
Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and
Rwanda. He headed the U.S. delegation to the U.N.
talks on the permanent International Criminal Court
and worked on the creation of special courts of
accountability in Cambodia and Sierra Leone. He is the
co-editor, Law and Force in the New International
Order and co-author of Self-determination in the New
International Order.
Judge Patricia M. Wald Former U.S. judge on
14-member panel at the International Criminal Tribunal
in The Hague, which hears cases about wartime
atrocities in the former Yugoslavia. Formerly she was
Chief
Judge
of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C.
Circuit.
Michael Walzer Professor, School for Social Sciences,
Institute for Advanced Study. Co-editor of Dissent.
Among his many books are Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral
Argument with Historical Illustrations and Spheres of
Justice: A Defensive Pluralism and Equality.
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A Social Research conference
New School University, April 25-27, 2002
Home Register Agenda Speakers Location Hotels
Contact
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International Justice, War Crimes and Terrorism: The
U.S. Record, a three-day conference at the New School
University, places the September 11th terror attacks
in a global and historical context. Speakers will
address events in Vietnam, Bosnia, Rwanda, Kosovo, New
York, and other places, discussing how the national
and international community, including the United
States, responded to the devastating events in their
own and other countries, through legal, political,
military, and other means.
The conference has been organized by Dr. Arien Mack,
Editor of Social Research journal. "We are defining
terrorism as acts of violence against innocent
civilians, which may or may not be part of an
officially declared war," said Dr. Mack, Marrow
Professor of Psychology at the Graduate Faculty and
director of the Social Research conference series.
"The conference presents a wide-angle view on how war
crimes and terrorism are and ought to be dealt with,
and reinforces the University's commitment to
advancing the possibility of global justice and the
protection of human rights."
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